I also have £100 to spend on other learning resources but I'm as yet undecided what to spend it on. I'm thinking of waiting until to my Uni course stuff arrives to see if I need to buy any books for that.

This value-priced bundle contains both the bestselling book Mac/iPhone development book, Programming in Objective-C 2.0, and a complete video training course on the fundamentals of Objective-C, Programming in Objective-C 2.0 Live Lessons, Part I, with more than 8 hours of video training on DVD from author and trainer Stephen Kochan.

Thank you for the heads up.
Edit: I believe I am placing the order shortly for the Hilleglass book. Book stores sell if for $49.99, and I don't mind buying it online. Is $32 USD a fairly good price for the book?

It took me a while to figure out exactly what I didn't like about the Hillegass text. I read Kochan's excellent texts (Programming in C and Programming in Objective-C) and didn't really learn from Hillegass's style the way I learned from Kochan's.

My issue is that Hillegass builds applications with Interface Builder from the very start. IB can be a wonderful tool, but for someone just stepping into OOP (like I was) using IB comes off as a little "hand-wavey". I think IB is a much better tool for people who have experience building UI by code.

This is a bit of a strange response to your question, but here it goes. My response probably only makes sense for huge fans of Don Knuth.

I wasn't asking for any new computer science books this year (I already have dozens and dozens, probably 200+ books on CS, since I'm a professor that does research in analysis of algorithms)..... BUT I also buy the books on Knuth's own reading list:

I already owned the first 14 of these books, but the last 3 of them were recently added, and I received them for Christmas this year. The Blasphemy and Blacklist books were novels, and the Travels of Ibn Battutah is a journal by a Muslim scholar (if anyone else is buying these books, be careful... do not confuse the Travels book with another one, called Travels with a Tangerine... you'll see that they are both by the same author).

I apologize for the unorthodox response, but I thought that people who know Knuth's work might be pleased to read this post.

This is a bit of a strange response to your question, but here it goes. My response probably only makes sense for huge fans of Don Knuth.

I wasn't asking for any new computer science books this year (I already have dozens and dozens, probably 200+ books on CS, since I'm a professor that does research in analysis of algorithms)..... BUT I also buy the books on Knuth's own reading list:

I already owned the first 14 of these books, but the last 3 of them were recently added, and I received them for Christmas this year. The Blasphemy and Blacklist books were novels, and the Travels of Ibn Battutah is a journal by a Muslim scholar (if anyone else is buying these books, be careful... do not confuse the Travels book with another one, called Travels with a Tangerine... you'll see that they are both by the same author).

I apologize for the unorthodox response, but I thought that people who know Knuth's work might be pleased to read this post.

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I'd love to have the time to read other non-technical books but when I finally do get the chance I prefer reading some sci-fi by Iain M Banks or some fantasy novels.

This is a bit of a strange response to your question, but here it goes. My response probably only makes sense for huge fans of Don Knuth.

I wasn't asking for any new computer science books this year (I already have dozens and dozens, probably 200+ books on CS, since I'm a professor that does research in analysis of algorithms)..... BUT I also buy the books on Knuth's own reading list:

I already owned the first 14 of these books, but the last 3 of them were recently added, and I received them for Christmas this year. The Blasphemy and Blacklist books were novels, and the Travels of Ibn Battutah is a journal by a Muslim scholar (if anyone else is buying these books, be careful... do not confuse the Travels book with another one, called Travels with a Tangerine... you'll see that they are both by the same author).

I apologize for the unorthodox response, but I thought that people who know Knuth's work might be pleased to read this post.

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I have had Life: A User's Manual for years and still haven't got around to reading it yet. I also have another book by Georges Perec called A Void, which is a full length novel written entirely without the letter e. Amazingly, he wrote it in French (also without the letter e) and then it was translated to English.

Yeah, you can get the combo of my book and DVD (Part I) from Amazon for around $44, which I think is a pretty good deal considering the book alone sells for $30. (My publisher even suggested that those who already have the book can buy this bundle and turn around and sell the book on eBay!)

I finished a Part II DVD (covers Foundation and gives an intro to iPhone programming) a couple of months ago, but I don't think the publisher released that yet. In fact, I'm not even sure how they're going to sell that.

The DVD pretty much directly follows the book. It's basically me talking to myself in front of a computer (that took some getting used to), while using a combination of slides and program examples. Some people learn better through lecture and demonstration than from just reading a book. So there are just some more choices here for the Objective-C newbie.

Yeah, you can get the combo of my book and DVD (Part I) from Amazon for around $44, which I think is a pretty good deal considering the book alone sells for $30. (My publisher even suggested that those who already have the book can buy this bundle and turn around and sell the book on eBay!)

I finished a Part II DVD (covers Foundation and gives an intro to iPhone programming) a couple of months ago, but I don't think the publisher released that yet. In fact, I'm not even sure how they're going to sell that.

The DVD pretty much directly follows the book. It's basically me talking to myself in front of a computer (that took some getting used to), while using a combination of slides and program examples.

Cheers,

Steve Kochan

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Sigh. I didn't even think to check Amazon... Thanks for your post, though. I appreciate it.

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